[Tkinter-discuss] Re: Tkinter-discuss Digest, Vol 3, Issue 7

[EuGèNe Van den Bulke]

Thanks Jeff, it fixed it ... I am sorry about the stupid spelling mistake 
in the font name :( My apology for the inconvenience.


>I think the problem may be as simple as picking the right font for the
>Text widget.
>
>Try using font=("Courier", 12) instead.
>
>There's probably no font called "courrier" on your system (there wasn't
>on mine) so Tk chooses a "platform-specific default font".  On my
>system, it was an incredibly ugly but fixed-width font.  On yours, it
>must be some proportional-spaced font.
>
>Jeff

Eugene